ACTR/ARTC Program Conference '94
Ches Skinner
skinner at HG.ULETH.CA
Fri Apr 1 13:15:33 EST 1994
Association for Canadian Theatre Research
Association de la recherche theatrale au Canada
1994 ACTR/ARTC CONFERENCE PROGRAM--University of Calgary
All sessions are in Reeve Theatre, except where indicated
Friday, June 3
1900-21.30. Meeting of ACTR/ARTC Executive
(Venue: Reeve Theatre Seminar Room 103)
Saturday, June 4
0700-0900 Chuckwagon Breakfast (hosted by University)
MacEwan Student Centre patio
0900-0915 President's Welcome
0915-1045 Non-Verbal Representation: Explorations &
Critiques (Chair: Reid Gilbert, Capilano College)
Laara Cassells/Kathleen Foreman/Doug
McCullough/Brian Smith (Mount
Royal College and U of Calgary) "Gender:
Gaping: Mask Creation & Performance"
Celeste Derksen (U of Victoria) "The Feminist
Clown: Gender Parody in Karen Hines's
Pochsy's Lips"
Michael Ajzenstadt (Jerusalem, Israel) "The
Political Language of Non-Verbal
Performance Art"
1045-1100 Break
1100-1230 Theatre for/and Young Audiences (Chair: Joyce
Doolittle, U of Calgary)
Helene Beauchamp (UQAM) "Fonction du
theatre dans la societe des jeunes et nature
des publics d'adolescents"
Lisa Stowe (Memorial U) "Re-Defining Child's
Play: The Legitimation of Young People's
Theatre in Newfoundland"
Maria DiCenzo (Erindale College, Uof Toronto)
"Taking It to the Schools: Popular Theatre
for Young Audiences (Catalyst Theatre,
The Company of Sirens)"
1230-1345 Lunch
1345-1515 Gendered Genres? Fantasy, Hysteria & Myth (Chair:
Denyse Lynde, Memorial U)
Leanne Griffin (U of Saskatchewan) "The
Archetype of the Animus in I Am Yours"
Heather Jones (Mount Allison U) "Performing
Hysteria: Live Bait's Guilty and the Haunting
of Esther Cox"
Shelley Scott (U of Toronto) ""The Princess,
the Selkie, and the Unicorn: Reclaiming the
Fairytale in Canadian Women's Drama"
1515-1530 Break
1530-1700 Re-Presenting Her/history (Chair: Jonathan
Rittenhouse, Bishops U)
Anne Nothof (Athabasca U) "Playing a
Woman's Life: Appropriate Voices in The
Making of Warriors and The Rivers of China"
Lauri Seidlitz (Dalhousie U) "Princess
Pocahontas Speaks Out: Reaching Cultural
Healing Through History"
Susan Stone-Blackburn (U of Calgary)
"Reflections on Women Playwrights in Four
Recent Plays"
1700-1900 President's Reception (Olympic Oval Link, Upper
Level)
1800-2000 Theory Discussion Group (Craigie Hall D514)
Chair: Richard Plant Reading: T.B.A.
Sunday, June 5
0830-1000 Performing Sexuality: Transvestism & Looking
(Chair: Susan Bennett, U of Calgary)
Christie Carson (U of Glamorgan, Wales)
"Paradoxical Androgyny: Gender
Representation in Robert Lepage's Vinci and
Tectonic Plates"
Scott Duchesne (U of Ottawa) "He Playing She:
The Representation of Women in Sketch
Comedy"
Helen Gilbert (Monash U, Australia)
"Occidental (Sex) Tourists: Neo-imperialism
and the Gendering of Asia"
1000-1015 Break
1015-1130 Knowledge, Power & The Representation of Gender
(Chair: Rita Much, Toronto)
Kathy Chung (UBC) "Heading West or
Becoming A Desert Island: The Death of the
Female Rebel"
Marlene Moser (U of Toronto) "Speaking
Action: Narrative in the Theatre of Margaret
Hollingsworth"
Joanne Horwood (U of Alberta) "M. Butterfly,
"She-Tragedy" and the Tradition of the
Defenseless Woman"
1130-1245 Lunch
Meetings of Professional Concerns Ctte.
and Board of Theatre Research in Canada
(Venues: T.B.A.)
1230-1400 Criticism, Genre and Designation (Chair:
Robert Nunn, Brock U)
Moira Day (U of Saskatchewan) "Jamie
Portman: The Prairie Populist as National
Critic 1975-1987"
James Hoffman (U College of the Cariboo)
"Vancouver's New Play Centre: Writing Out of
Genre"
Ed Nyman (York U) "Power Plays and Hat
Tricks: The 1970s Alternate Theatre in
Toronto as Postcolonial Performance"
1400-1530 Exploding Conventions/Re-Making Genres (Chair:
Christie Carson, U of Glamorgan)
Catherine Graham (McGill U) "The Role of
Framing Activities in Creating New Genre and
Gender Conventions"
Jennifer Harvie (U of Glasgow) & Ric Knowles
(Guelph) "Dialogic Monologue"
1600 Depart for mountains and banquet
Monday June 7
0800-0900 Women's Caucus Business Meeting & Breakfast
(Craigie Hall D514)
0900-1030 TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Celebrating Our Foremothers (Chair: Paula
Sperdakos, Scarborough College, U of Toronto)
Venue: PF 110
Kym Bird (York U)
Penny Farfan (U of Regina) "Elizabeth Robins
as Ibsen Actress and Suffrage Activist"
Mary Jane Warner (York U) "Amy Sternberg:
Classical Ballet Teacher"
Copyright, Space and Place (Chair: Bob Lawrence,
University of Victoria) Venue: PF 114
Tony Vickery (U of Victoria) "A Theatrical
Comparison: The Princess Theatre, Toronto
and The Victoria Theatre, Victoria--1904-5"
Doug McCallum (UBC) "Shifting Signs in
Vancouver's Orpheum Theatre"
Patrick O'Neill (Mt. St. Vincent U) "The Impact
of Copyright Law on Canadian Drama"
1030-1045 Break
1045-1215 TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Inside/Outside: China, Japan, Canada (Chair: Barbara
Drennan, U of Victoria) Venue: PF 110
Mark Ceolin (U of Toronto) "Interment and
Aftermath: Japanese-Canadian Women's
Voices in Pre and Post-Redress Canada"
Elizabeth Johnson (UBC) "The Social Context
of Cantonese Opera in Canada"
Karrie Sebryk (Victoria) "More Feminine than
the Women"
Ethnographic Studies of Performance Creation and
Response (Chair: Heather Jones, Mount Allison U)
Venue: PF 114
Roberta Bramwell (U of Calgary)
Amethyst First Rider (U of Calgary)
Sheila Pinkerton (U of Calgary
(*N.B. participants in this session will have
the option of follow-up small group discussion
through the lunchhour)
1215-1330 Lunch (NOTE: during the lunch hour Ches Skinner
will be demonstrating a computer database for
performance calendars -- Reeve Theatre Lobby)
1330-1500 Genre in Conflict (Chair: James Dugan, U of Calgary)
(Venue: Boris Roubakine Lecture Hall, Craigie Hall)
Jim Noonan (Carleton U) "James Reaney and
the 'protestant' Donnellys"
Chris Johnson (U of Manitoba) "Foxy Persons"
Larry McDonald (Carleton U) "At Play in the
Novel: Dramatic Discourse in Birney's Down
the Long Table"
1500-1515 Break
1515-1630 Annual General Meeting
(Venue: Boris Roubakine Lecture Hall, Craigie Hall)
1700-1830 Meeting of Old & New Executive (Venue RT 103)
2000 Performance Event, co-sponsored by ACTR/ARTC
and CWSA: "Women in Performace"--local, national
and international performers T.B.A. Tickets will
be available at the conference.
Tuesday June 7
Our program is "officially" over BUT we will be co-hosting a session
on "Violence, Gender and Genre" with the Canadian Women's Studies
Association from 0900-1100. Venue and speakers TBA.
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